The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
BERNARD CRICKThe politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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